drown是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 淹死; (高声音) 遮掩(低声音)，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Glenarvan and Paganel, and, indeed, the whole party, gave themselves up for lost, as the horses were fast getting out of their depth, and six feet of water would be enough to drown them.
-- "Better to drown if we must!"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Another darkness was closing in as surely, when the church bells, then ringing pleasantly in many an airy steeple over France, should be melted into thundering cannon; when the military drums should be beating to drown a wretched voice, that night all potent as the voice of Power and Plenty, Freedom and Life.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As a child that has been hurt skips about, putting all his muscles into movement to drown the pain, in the same way Alexey Alexandrovitch needed mental exercise to drown the thoughts of his wife that in her presence and in Vronsky's, and with the continual iteration of his name, would force themselves on his attention.
-- He gets something from the Academy," she went on briskly, trying to drown the distress that the queer change in Anna Pavlovna's manner to her had aroused in her.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Oh, well, brother, but we have to correct and direct na-ture, and, but for that, we should drown in an ocean of prejudice.
-- He may drown himself芒聙娄.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Enough love might have been wrung out of me,metaphorically speaking, to drown anybody in; and yet therewould have remained enough within me, and all over me, topervade my entire existence.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She might talk on; and if he wanted to say any thing himself, he would only talk loud-er, and drown her voice.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Out of these say twenty will endeavour to drown the bitterness of despised love in drink; twenty more will mope away their lives without a wish or attempt to make a mark in the world, because they have no ambition apart from their attachment to you; twenty more the susceptible person myself possibly among them will be always draggling after you, getting where they may just see you, doing desperate things.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As to strong beer, there's enough of it in the cellars already, to drown the Manor House."
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Because I am beginning to grow old, and had rather lie at my ease by the fire than run about the house after the mice, my mistress laid hold of me, and was going to drown me; and though I have been lucky enough to get away from her, I do not know what I am to live upon.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Bolgolam, the admiral, could not preserve his temper, but, rising up in fury, said, he won-dered how the secretary durst presume to give his opinion for preserving the life of a traitor; that the services you had performed were, by all true reasons of state, the great aggra-vation of your crimes; that you, who were able to extinguish the fire by discharge of urine in her majesty's apartment (which he mentioned with horror), might, at another time, raise an inundation by the same means, to drown the whole palace; and the same strength which enabled you to bring over the enemy's fleet, might serve, upon the first discon-tent, to carry it back; that he had good reasons to think you were a Big-endian in your heart; and, as treason begins in the heart, before it appears in overt-acts, so he accused you as a traitor on that account, and therefore insisted you should be put to death.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hear I the roaring streams from Pirohitee's peak of spears, when they leap down the crags and drown the villages? The blast!the blast!Up, spine, and meet it!
-- Such, gentlemen, is the inflexibility of sea-usages and the instinctive love of neatness in seamen; some of whom would not willingly drown without first washing their faces.
-- "Suppose he should take it into his head to duck you, though yes, and drown you what then?"
-- No, no!shame upon all cowards shame upon them!Let 'em go drown like Pip, that jumped from a whale-boat.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It's of no use disguising facts, ma'am,' said Mr. Bumble, slowly flourishing the teaspoon with a kind of amorous dignity which made him doubly impressive; 'I would drown it myself, with pleasure.'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Even just the same common sort of joy which seamen gen-erally have, after they are got safe ashore from a shipwreck, which they drown all in the next bowl of punch, and for-get almost as soon as it is over; and all the rest of my life was like it.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "No," returned Minnie softly, and rattling the dishes to drown the conversation.
-- The rich had not become so conspicuously rich as to drown all moderate incomes in obscurity.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Well, everybody WAS in a state of mind now, and they sings out: 'The whole BILIN' of 'm 's frauds!Le's duck 'em!le's drown 'em!le's ride 'em on a rail!'
-- So the duke took his hands off and says: 'If you ever deny it again I'll drown you.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Father and son were really about to drown when they heard a voice like a guitar out of tune call from the sea: "What is the trouble?"
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